Robert Ronnow Poems

No cows to look at
I hear the truck traffic

Everything changes like clouds
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It takes some courage to eat a legume's fruit
knowing what is known of each poisonous part
of the locust (although the flowers may be frittered) .
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Dad's bark is worse than his verse.
When he hits it doesn't really hurt.

The dirt outside the house is soil.
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The one power that a man can have is in
the perfection of himself. He changes
with the weather but of this he's unaware.
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Just watching raindrops slapping leaves
is better than anything requiring electricity
including fame and posterity. Monday
morning I walk over to the art museum
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Let us accept this pain
and some fear
it will heighten autumn colours
crack of clean air
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Science can't save you, neither can religion,
at least Popper and Niebuhr, philosophers and poets,
are entertainers, which is why actors and athletes
are paid so much. Thanks for the summaries.
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Imperfect world, purposeless person.
I retired to pursue perfection
learn jazz tunes, woody and herbaceous plants,
read every inch of English literature,
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To read or watch movies, that is the question.
When tired at workday's end, depressed about death's
certainty and my recent surgery
unable to contribute purpose
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Dear Robert
            I'm enclosing the warranty
                        for your shaver In case
anything should happen
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